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I'm gonna buy this next week:
CPU: i5 2500k or i7 2600k havn't decided
GPU: ATI 6950 (gonna flash it to 6970)
Mobo: ASUS P8P67 Pro
Heatsink: Hyper 212+ or a top tier air heatsink like Noctua D14 havn't decided
Case: HAF 932 or HAF 922 havn't decided on full tower or mid tower
PSU: some 600W good brand gold-bronze certified
RAM: Corsair 8GB(2x4) DDR3 1600
SSD: 120GB OCZ Vertex 3
HD: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200RPM
Mouse: Razor Deathadder
Keyboard: Razor Blackwidow (mainly cus I don't like cherry mx black and there's not many cherry mx brown in the market, if someone could suggest me some good cherry mx brown keyboards that would be cool
Headset: Steelseries Syberia v2
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Do yourself a favour and grab the silver arrow cooler instead of the Noctua, unless you plan to try and hit 5ghz overclock and above. It's cheaper, quieter, keeps the cpu just as cool and looks better. The Noctua fans are garbage and you'd end up replacing them adding extra cost.
The only downside to the Silver Arrow is that it isn't as good when going for extremes like 5ghz, chances of you getting lucky and recieving a chip that would hit that is slim anyway. I say all this with having both.
I could just get the hyper 212+ and slap on 2 fans on it and get a 4.5
You'll get 4.5 with any cheap half decent after-market cooler anyway fella, including the hyper, when you mentioned the noctua i made the assumption you'd be going for a half decent OC of 4.6-4.9 as there is no reason to get it otherwise. Although even then as long as you don't live somewhere with really hot summers you should be good with the 212 to at least 4.6.
Computer 1:
Silverstone Raven RV02-E case
I5 2500K @ stock speed
ASRock P67 Extreme 4 Gen3
Thermaltake Frio CPU cooler
3x HD 6950 2GB
Corsair HX750
8GB DDR3 1600
3x 23" LED Eyefinity in portrait mode
Computer2:
Silverstone Temjin TJ07 case
i5 2500K @ 4.4ghz
ASRock Z68 Extreme 3 Gen3
Corsair H60 w/ Enermax TB silence push/pull
GTX 580 Phantom 3GB
OCZ ZT 750 PSU
8GB DDR3 1600
Dell U2711 2560x1440
My rig wil be as follows (by March 1st)
Intel Core i7-2600 3.4 GHz
8GB DDR3 SDRAM @ 1333 MHz
1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 555
Equipment I already own:
Razer Lycosa keyboard.
Samsung SyncMaster P2770 monitor (27")
Turtle Beach Earforce x11 headphones (had to glue one ear back on due to an unfortunate rolling chair incident!)
I've never used anything but a standard mouse, so I guess the jury is still out as to what kind of mouse I will be getting. I'm open to suggestions.
I suggest you don't buy a laptop, the 555 is a laptop GPU unless i'm mistaken fella. Can't see you having much use for a keyboard, mouse and monitor with that
Edit - nor should you have 1333mhz ram with a 2600, it should be 1600+, preferably 1600.
plan on multimedia!use an all amd and use opencl program (tomshardware did first part of 9 on this new awsome techno,2 feb 2012)
dont plan on streaming then go intel!
Tell that to Alienware - they built it LOL
Current specs:
Intel 990x @ 3.9ghz
Corsair Dominator Tripple Channel 12 gigs @ 2002Mhz
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R - FE
Corsair Force 3 120GB x 2
Corsair AX1200 Professional Series PSU
EVGA nVidia GTX 580
Generic BluRay DVD Player/Burner by LiteOn
Creative SB X-Fi
Logitech G510(Keyboard) + G500(mouse)
Razer Naga + Vespula(for MMOs)
Asus ML248H Monitor
Generic Logitech Headset
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When guild wars is released I will upgrade to sli and grab the Koolance VID -NX580 + Exos - 2.5 Liquid colling. And that will set me up to the fullest
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan-
I hope Ivy Bridge will bring some good subnotebooks that can game well for when this game comes out.
Best now if you want a PORTABLE laptop, meaning anything below 14 inches, is to go with Acer 38 - but Acer is meh. Or Sony Vaio SA or Vaio SB which has 6630.
There is also M11x but with a low voltage CPU... Nah.
GW2 will hopefully be one of those games that are so fun that I will go play at friends houses. A MMO that is actually social! A game were you can play with your buddies regardless of how long you or they have played. Its going to be fun getting drunk and setting up LANs with this. Its been a hell of a long time since I have last seen a game having that appeal.
Ivy bridge brings a lot of goodies with it, quad channel ram, allowing 64 gigs of ram to be converted into a Ram disk loading games onto ram and OS, which we have seen with asus mobo that allows for 5GBs read and 4 GBs of write speed only running at 1600 MHZ. I will be upgrading to this in the near future since the extreme edition processors cost around 1200 USD and I already have one 990x I will have to wait another year to get the newer until i save.
but for the new PC builders get the i5 and build a great system its worth it.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan-
Can't wait for GW2, hope the widescreen support is ok.
Processor: i7-950 @ 4.3Ghz
Heatsink: Corsair H80 (Push/Pull config as standard but i swapped the fan doing pull for a quieter Noctua fan)
RAM: 12GB 1600Mhz 8-8-8-24
Mainboard: EVGA X58 SLI3
SSD: 2x 120GB Vertex 3 Max IOPS (RAID 0)
HDD: 2x 2TB Samsung Spinpoint
GPU: HD7970 @ 1180/1700 1.17v [I might possibly get another by the time GW2 is out depending on how it does for othe games, battlefield 3 is ok though so everything should be fine.]
PSU: Corsair AX1200]
Case: Silverstone Fortress FT02
Got 3 Dell 2209WA monitors for the PC, resolution is 5040x1050 before bezel correction applied. If I can find someone who wants to buy my current ones though I might upgrade them to 3 Dell U2412M 24" monitors (5760x1200 before bezel correction).
My current spec is slightly out of date but still games well enough for my needs, few tweaks planned till i'm done with it.
CPU: i7 920 2.67GHz (Planned Upgrades:i7-970 3.2GHz or better by 04/2012)
GPU1: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 Superclocked 896MB (Planned Upgrades: See below)
GPU2: Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ (Planned Upgrades: GTX 560 Ti x 2 or better by 06/2012)
Display: 2 x Dell 24" LCD (Planned Upgrades: +1 Dell 24" LCD for a total of 3 by 08/2012)
MoBo: Asus Rampage Gene II (Planned Upgrades: None)
HeatSink: Xigmatek Dark Knight (Planned Upgrades; None)
Case: CoolerMaster Storm Scout (Planned Upgrades: None)
PSU: Antec TPQ-850 (Planned Upgrades: None)
RAM: ADATA Plus 3 x 2GB DDR3 1600 (Planned Upgrades: 2 sets of 3x4GB DDR3 2000 memory Corsair or Muskin I have to be careful with tight clearance near the CPU Heatsink)
SSD: OCZ Vertex Turbo 60GB (Boot & O/S Only - No upgrades planned)
HD: WD Caviar Black 500GB 7200RPM (Storage & Apps - No upgrades planned)
External Storage: Network shared WD MyBook 1TB (No upgrades planned)
Key: Microsoft Sidewinder X6 (No upgrades planned)
Mouse: Microsoft Sidewinder X8 (No upgrades planned)
Headset: Logitech G930 Wireless
UPS: APC 1300 XS (No upgrades planned)
Net: Belkin N+ Wireless Router (No upgrades planned)
O/S: Win7 64 Home Premium
Jules: You know the shows on TV?
Vincent: I don't watch TV.
Jules: Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?
That SLI is bad for you, whats happening is that your 9800 is holding your 260 back, might want to get rid of the 9800 so you have more performance.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan-
Didn't really think about it that way, I was using the 9800 for Physx and not trying to run them full SLI. I had not noticed any performance issues but I will take a crack at reconfiguring my setup and testing. My plans are for a full SLI upgrade in a few months, but I've also been considering postponing the GPU upgrades and scrapping the Rampage II for a newer Rampage IV or other performance platform, seeing how the LGA1366 platform and chips are nearly extinct, I can't even find a decent upgrade online anymore. I built this system in 2009 it is still viable and I can take the outdated components and build a 'hand-me-down' for someone on the cheap.
Jules: You know the shows on TV?
Vincent: I don't watch TV.
Jules: Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?
Intel i5 2500k, no overclock running with 3 fans (ikr)
GTX 570 and 6 gb ram
1tb HHD
Im quite satisfied with what I have and I will run GW2 maxed without a doubt
"It has potential"
-Second most used phrase on existence
"It sucks"
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Not gonna post entire spec, just the PC :P
CPU: i5 2500k 3.30
GPU: GTX460
8G kingston 1600mhz memory
1TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard.
Pretty much does what I want it to do, the primary hard drive is the only bottleneck to the system, will sort out an SSD later ... maybe :P
Been running for the past two years on the following.
Over clocked Intel core i7 930 3.36GHz, 8mb cache.
12Gb ram.
MSI Radeon HD 6970 Lightning over clocked with 2 gigs of ram
Sound Blaster X-FI Titanium
1.5TB hard drive.
Windows 7 64bit ultimate.
DVD/BR player.
Logitech G500 mouse (tried a lot of mice and I just love this mouse over all and I'm not a fan of wireless mice)
Logitech G15 keyboard.
Logitech G35 headset (though I often use the G330 since its lighter on the head and allows me to hear external noise)
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 speaker system when Im not using headset.
21.5 HD monitor.
Due to expansion issues, I've been pondering it replacing it this year and giving the system to one of the kids. I'd really love to go with two of the new 7970 ATI video cards, the new architecture and schematics the new 79 series looks to be rocking. Lower power requirements, and even faster performance. One thing that I am quite cranky about is when I can not run a game at max settings across the board, no matter how many players are doing things. That in mind I've been really pondering a new system this summer. One thing I want to do this time around is go liquid cooling on the video cards. The main reason is to keep heat down but secondary bonus would be the system being much quieter. Having had issues in the past where I've had video cards crash due to over heating, I nolonger find it worth while not to look at ways to keep the systems as cool as possible.
Has anyone heard any spec requirements for GWII yet? As in what it will take to actually run everything max no matter what is going on in the game? Oh and I'm still trying to figure out if solid state drives will make much of a difference for online gaming to go that route. Like having a 120 gig or so SS drive for the OS, video drivers and game is worth while or not. Anyhow thats what I am pondering currently.
I love those Silverstone cases with the motherboards rotated. What a smart idea to help with heat dissapation. I've never understood why so many haven't cared for this concept. I just wish more styles and sizes of cases were made with that rotated motherboard. Basically I wish that more of the industry would embrace it. Oh and having easy access to the cables on top, awesome.
I've tend to simple mice myself, but my wife loves her Razer Naga for WoW. I just use the Logitech G500 myself. Though after watching her use the naga I've been reconsidering.
Currently in route, can't wait to put it all together.
http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=19536546
Thats a triple channel mobo, you should have spent another 10 bucks and got 3 sticks of memory instead of going dual, for better speeds. but still its an awesome setup.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan-
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz (8 CPUs), ~2.0GHz
Memory: 8192MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M
Display Memory: 4062 MB
Dedicated Memory: 2014 MB
It's a laptop, but I reckon I should be able to max the game.
Not expecting the game to play 100% at all times though. But smooth enough.
No, it's not, it's a dual channel motherboard, Sandybridge CPU's use dual not triple. I wouldn't have went with the vengeance ram though, he'll have problems with the tall heat spreaders using slots 1 & 2 on the mobo with that cooler.
Nvm I thought it was a i7
and the dual channel is not specific to sandybridge, since I have the 990x sandybridge which allows triple channel, How ever I seen the model of your i5 and it does only support dual, my bad.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.
Carl Sagan-